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Jlssociation of 
Descendants of 

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REPORT 



OF THE 



FIRST REUNION 



OF THE 



Association of Descendants of 

Andrew Ward 



HELD AT 



FAIRFIELD, CONN. 

May loth, 190^ 

GEO. K. WARD, Secretary 



NEW YORK CITY 
1905 



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DR. CHARLES SAMUEL WARD 

I. ate St-crtlary <jf I le "Society of C )I mial Wars" of Connecticut 



THE REUNION 
morning Session 

TIk- Association of I )csLXiKlants of .Andrew Ward assembled in 
the heaiuiful anditoriuni of the Fairfield Historical Societ} on Wednes- 
day, May lo, 1905. 

Jn iIk absence of the President, the Secretary moved that General 
Jostpli W heeler, I'. S. A., as the oldest living Vice-President present, 
be requested to preside, and tne motion being enthusiasticall}- carried, 
General W heeler took the chair, an. id applause. 

Having called the n-ieeting to order, the chairman spoke as fol- 
lows : 

1 feel very much honored in being called upon to preside over this 
r.-'eeting, and I hope that every one present will feel, as I do, the mnndate 
that is upon us to preseive the records of ancestry. Every religion on 
earth commands in some way the honor or worship of ancestry. We 
sometimes build monuments to our ancestors, but this is not always 
possible. Certainly the least that we can do is to preserve their rec- 
ords. What a disappointment it would be for us to think that in a 
few years our descendants would not even think enough of us to pre- 
serve our names. Therefore, besides following our inclination, we 
are following the command of God in preserving the records of our 
ancestors. Our religion says "Honor thy father and thy mother," and 
all other religions have in some form a command of ihat kind. 

General Wdieeler then called u;.on Rev. l'>ank S. Child to lead m prayer. 

Prayer by the Kcv>. Itlr. Child 

God of our fathers, we thank Thee for the inspiration of blessed 
memories. We rejoice in the record, true and precious, of every soul 
that has lived for Thee and for country, as the record has come to us, 
and is living to-day in memory. We thank Thee, Almighty God, that 
Thou hast moved us to meet in glad and lively recognition of the great 
and the good who have preceded us. Make this meeting to-day one 
that shall leave upon our hearts rich and abiding impressions. Steel 
Thou us unto the emulation of all that is wise and precious in the lives 
of those who are our forefathers and our foremothers. Grant that 
everything that shall be said or done here to-day may be in the light 
of Thy presence, and this, our ])rayer, we make in the name anrl for 
the sake of the Adorable Redeenier, wdio taught us to pray 

(The Lord's Pi^ayer). 
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This was tollowcd In the hyimi "America," sung by the congrega- 
tion, standing. 

Rev. I-'rank S. Child, of Fairfield, Conn., then delivered the fol- 
lowing 

JIddrcss of Ulelcome 

Honored Descendants of an flonorcd Ancestor: I extend to yon, in 
die name of the I-'airtield Historical Society, a welcome home. The 
noble State of Connecticnt has been ])rodigally and splendidly repre- 
sented beyond her territorial borders b\ many energetic, aggressive 
sons and danghters. In this respect her record is matchless among 
sister States; and the glory of snch a record is shared generously by 
Fairfield, for generations the capital of this county, and an influential 

center of social, intellectual and connnercial life. 

Go where you will in tliis great Republic. North. Sotith, East or 
West, and the old familiar names appear — the names early written in 
the record books and religiously preserved in the precious vaults of 
our town-house Mecca. 

C iiuspicuous among these names is that of Andrew Ward, one of 
the leaders, builders, statesmen, living in the heroic times of wilder- 
ness conquest and civic beginnings for Connecticut. 

The new settlement had assumed an air of reasonable permanence 
and prosperit}-. when, about 1651, it became the chosen abode of your 
migratory ancestor, who tasted life in several places, reaching the con- 
simimation in Fairfield. 

A decade had been spent by the pioneer band in clearing land, lay- 
ing out streets, rearing humble and substantial log houses, sowing 
virgin soil with old countr}- seeds, cultivating native Indian corn, organ- 
izing town government, setting in motion th.' machinery of ecclesiastical 
life, and attending to the hundred and one tasks which belong to the 
subjugation of a new countr\ . 

The fertile fields were well tilU'il. tlie fair ])asture lands made a good 
showing of imported stock, ancient trie monarchs stood here and there, 
rejoicing in an escajjc from the woodman's ax, tlu' edges of vast native 
forests cast shadows athwart the outskirts of the settlemeiit. the tan- 
gled thickets of the swamp extended toward the shore on the south 
of the green, joining fellowship with the odorous mar.shes stretching 
toward the west behind the s;ui(l (hnies, ])ushing rashlv along the reef 
into the vcrv waters of the sea. 



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The littk" liills at the rear of the viUage, creepinjr hack into the 
many ridges which hreak the hin(lscai)e into encUess shapes, afforded 
a strange, wild hackgroinid suggesting hfe's vast mysteries and the 
infinite charm of the new world. 

The sea gave solemnity and fascination to the scene, awakening 
thoughts of mother country, bringing its fresh messages of cheer and 
inspiration, adding the strength of its frequent chorus to the notes of 
m\ riad creatures filling the air with unaccustomed sounds. For these 
pioneers had adventured into a thickly settled realm, the native realm 
of bears, and wolves, and wildcats unnumbered. Weird voices of these 
savage creatures sifted through the gloom of night, as the brutes 
prowled in swamp and wood and liit of clearing. And bird voices fell 
sw'eet and strong upon the morning air, blending with the whirr of 
wings and the fruitful industry of insects, according to season. 

It was a beautiful stretch of country which the emigrants had 
selected for their homes ; the spirit of the land seemed congenial to the 
spirit of the ambitious, workful people who had crossed the sea and 
threaded their way through the w'ilderness to settle the place. 

And there were the Indians to give for years to these, our fore- 
fathers, all needed spice of peril and adventure. Every lonely walk 
in the forest meant the risk of a hostile arrow, a cruel murder like that 
of Mistress Ann Hutchinson, a few miles below us, or a swift cap- 
tivity. x\lthough the red-men of Connecticut were held in good degree 
of repression by the white-men, yet there were numerous tragedies 
enacted in this wdlderness, and the story passed from mouth to mouth, 
as neighbors gossiped around the roaring fire on the hearth, or lean- 
ing upon musket or implement of husbandry, passed the time of day 
with each other. 

These were likewise days when the men and women of New^ Eng- 
land heard uncanny, fearsome voices floating through the air — were 
they the whispers, groans and shrieks of evil spirits, the black-man's 
wicked minions — or did the migrant, restless birds, the birds of pas- 
sage, and ill-omened creatures of air, sound the shrill, startling notes 
which made the blood curdle? 

These days were also vexed by the harrassments of Dutch preten- 
sion and aggression. Did not Fairfield declare war against New Am- 
sterdam, and elect Ludlow commander-in-chief of mihtary forces; and 
did not the martial company train and parade upon the green? For 
in 1653 Baxter, the freebooter from Rhode Island, seized a Dutch ves- 
sel and brought her into the harbor at Black Rock. Then the Dutch 



K THE RKINION 

sent to C'onnccticut two nieti-of-war. wliicli la\ riff the Fairfield shores 
for a time, and there was tremendous excitement in town. Ludlow. 
VQii remeniher, was censured by the court for his martial activit\-, and 
iR- t<»itl<. in hiijh (Uidq-eon. the strictures passed upon his patriotic 
conduct. This foremost man of the settlement, and famous associate 
of Andrew Ward, was very sensitive, irascible and opinionated, as well 
as enerofetic and ambitious, not onlv learned in the law. but likewise 
cxperiirentall>' versed in varied knowdedge of hum^n nature, a versa- 
tile, up-to-date individual who loved to lead, and ill-brooked interfer- 
ence or restraint. 

Major Gold shcnved better poise and a wiser spirit of adaptability. 
He was a more congenial pioneer, a man prepared to yield gracefully 
to circumstances when necessity demanded it. possessing the mind of 
a true gentleman, thoroughly equipped for all emergencies, the faitbfnl 
rervnt of his people. Xumerous were the important tasks gi\cn into 
his hands. 

jehu I'.urr was another of these re^dy, helpful, shrewd e^rly settlers 
who builded better than he knew. ])ntling the later generations uu'ler 
lasting obligations. 

It was a company of rare men and women who founde;! this settle- 
ment. Many of them lielonged to the gentry. They had coats of arms. 
Considerable j^rojjerty was brought with them. Gentlemen of educa- 
tion and refinement, conscientious protestants ag^ninst the harsh meas- 
ures of the English church and government, widely conversant with 
the affairs of the world, men of vision, fidelity and godliness, they 
imparted a tone and impulse to the isolated society of this town whi'-h 
abides to-day, and penetrates to the very ends of the Republic as it 
is freshly incarnated in worthy representatives of the first faiuilies of 
New England. 

These sobtT, thoughtful Puritans, gifted with an extraordinary 
turn for statecraft and a fine spiritual discernment, at the time quite 
unconscious of their uni(|ue importance — set to work in the solution 
of the profoundest and most far-reaching problems. The little dem- 
ocracies called towns, gave opportunities for the freest and fullest ex- 
periment in self-government and the richest pro])agation of political 
ideas. These men f)f trained intellect and high moral i)uriiose, favored 
by circumstances, wrought wisely in demonstratiou of the con(|uering 
principles which they announced as cardinal doctrines of true ])olitical 
faith. .\11 honor to them. 



THE REUNION 9 

The ancestor whose worth and work yon commemorate to-day, con- 
tribnted his fnll share to tlic liistory of the event fnl times. His services 
will be reconnted in your liearing. It is meet that we pav honor to 
the elect and favored company which laid l)roa(l and deep the splendid 
foundations of democratic (government. We will recall these brave, 
grand spirits. We will imitate their virtues, we will transmit their 
rugged, forceful life to the later generations. 

It gives the Fairfield Historical Society keen satisfaction to greet 
you on this occasion. 

We assure you that no arts of witchcraft will be practiced upon 
you. although you doubtless will rejoice in the witchery of May and the 
bewitchment of this beautiful, historic town. 

We assure you that the groans and shrieks and wails which you 
may possibly hear, are not the screams of stealthy panthers or the men- 
acing snap of prowling wolves, or the dismal echoes of thievish bears, 
but simply the racket of locomotive whistles, trolley cars and auto- 
mobiles. We assure you that bloody savages, with tomahawk or bow 
in hand, will never more dare to creep along the soft verdure and 
silently around some massive tree trunk mark you for a victim, although 
there stands the mortar and pestle of the Pequots ; in that case are 
stone implements, found on our soil, and arrow heads are scattered far 
and wide in this vicinity. 

Fear not. We have Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of 
the Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, and. above all, Daughters 
of the American Revolution, in town, who will render you willing ser- 
vice, and, in case of necessity, protect vou. 

Way this public commemoration of a distinguished pioneer's char- 
acter and services strengthen your sense of debt to the fathers, and 
help to inspire you unto the loftiest achievements of Christian pat- 
riotism. 

Following ]\rr. Child's address IMrs. Florence Bassett, of Bridgeport, 
Conn., was introduced, and favored the assembled descendants with a 
beautiful vocal selection, entitled, "The Brighter Day," by ]\Iarcheroni. She 
was heartilj' encored. 

Secretary's Report 

The Association of Descendants of Andrew Ward owes its origin 
to our worthy Vice-President, Mr. Christopher L. Ward, of Wilming- 
ton, Delaware. In the course of his correspondence with members of 
the family, scattered throughout the country, he came into communi- 
cation with vour Secretary and secured his immediate and cordial co- 



lo THE RErNION 

operation in the plan which liad heen conceived. It seems that the 
early correspondence of Mr. C L. Ward had elicited ]vo<l favoralde 
responses from tlu- persons to whom he wrote, all of them expressing 
approval of his idea, and promising heany supi crt. \\'itli the excep- 
tion of your Secretary, however, all pleaded husiness engagements. 
which would prevent them from assuming active jiart in t]:e organiza- 
tion of an association. 

The initiative in this important undertaking was therefore assumetl 
by the two gentlemen above named. Having thoroughly looked over 
the ground, they decided to put their project into definite shape, and 
to this end they caused to be printed and forwarded to as many of 
the descendants of Andrew W ard as they could readily locate, a circular 
asking whether the reci])ient world he in favor (i) of having issued 
a genealogical volume of the Andrew Wpr-d descendants, and (2) of 
forming a permanent association of such descendants. 

The answers received to this circular were numerous, and the 
writers seemed to be unanimousl\- in favor of both propositions. 

Hence it was decided to issue a call for a meeting, whose object 
should be the organization of an association of the descendants of 
Andrew Ward. 

Such a meeting was held, jnn-su-'.nt to call, at the Hotel Manhattan. 
New York City. June 21. 1904. The attendance was not large, but 
great enthusiasm was manifested by those who were present, and the 
society was foimally organized, with the election of ofificcrs and the 
adoption of a constitution. 

It was voted at this meeting that all descendants of Andrew Ward 
applying for membership before January i. 1905. should, upon admis- 
.sion, become charter mem.bers of the Association. Fourteen members 
were admitted at this preliminar\- nx^eting. Letters were read from 
many representative men and women, descendants of Andrew Ward. 
expressing a deep interest in the association, promising hearty co-opera- 
tion, and regretting unavoidable absence. 

Thus safely launched, tlir uilerprise began to make rai)id ])rogress. 
Neither time nf)r ex];ense w-as spared in ])us'iing the interests of the 
rocicty. The fact of its organization, and all irattcrs connected with 
its immediate development, were given wide ])nblicity by personal let- 
ters, and through the nH'flium of the press. .An attemj^t was made 
by the Secretary to acquaint e\-ery de-^cendant n\ our wortln ancestor 
with the steps that had been taken, and to secure an enlarged member- 
ship. .So hearty was the indorsement of the [iroject that before the 



THE REUNION II 

end oi tlie year HJ04 llic iiK'iiibcr.shi]) liad j^rown ti) lar^c pro])! irtions, 
and the society was firinly established, lly ihe first dav of lamiarv. 
1905. the roll of the Association shciwed 130 charter members. This 
has since been increased by eleven, so that the number now stands at 
141. Your Secretary expresses the hojie that at the present meeting 
there may be added at least nine new members, thus bringing the roll 
up to 150. It is also hoped that at this meeting a goodly number of 
those already enrolled may be found both able and willing to become 
life members of the Association ; since, in order to carry out the terms 
of the constitution, considerable expense will be incurred in the near 
future, and demands will be made upon a treasury already well nigh 
depleted, owing to the cost of preliminary work. In the course of his 
correspondence, carried on unremittingly through the past two and a 
half years, your Secretary has written to between 600 and 700 descend- 
ants of Andrew Ward, and between him and many of these frequent 
letters have passed. Over 3,000 descendants of the past and present 
have been located, in many instances with the accompanying dates of 
birth, marriage and death. Along this line the work may be said to 
be only fairly under way, the compiling of a genealogy of Andrew- 
Ward's descendants proving of exceeding magnitude. A good begin- 
ning has been made, however, and the prospects are bright for a vol- 
ume in which the whole family will take just pride. In prosecuting 
his labors, your Secretary has been greatly aided by certain members 
of the family, who, for many years, have given both time and efifort 
to genealogical researches. Among those to whom he is thus indebted 
may be mentioned: Mr. Robert Peel Wakeman, of Southport. Conn., 
the gifted compiler of the Wakeman Genealogy ; Mr. Frank Grant, of 
Westfield, Mass., the wide-awake Secretary and Treasurer of the Grant 
Family Association; Mr. Christopher L. Ward, of Wilmington, Dela- 
ware, and many others. 

It is proper also to mention that the voluminous MSS. of the late 
Dr. Charles S. Ward, of New Haven and New York, for manv years 
Secretar}- of the Society of Colonial Wars of Connecticut, were kindl}- 
placed at my disposal by his brother, our President, Mr. Edward Trum- 
bull Ward, of Santa Barbara, Cal. Thus has the work been prosecuted. 
It has not been without discouragements, but your Secretary has been 
upheld by a strong faith in the ultimate success of a venture which 
has received upon every side the most enthusiastic support from the 
loyal descendants of Andrew Ward. All of which is hereby respect- 
fully submitted. Geo. K. Ward, Secretary. 



12 THK REUNION 

Crcajurcr's Report 

RECEIPTS. 

Initiation fees: 

135 MemlxTs ^'^35 00 

6 Life members 60 00 

Total $195 00 

DISIJL'KSEMEXTS. 

1 'rioting 62 10 

Postage 58 26 

Rent of hotel 10 00 

Stationery 11 62 

Railroad expenses and other traveling expenses 7 50 

Advertisement. Boston Transcri])t 2 13 

Letter scale and pad i 25 

Collecting checks 1 30 

Telegrams and telephones i 50 

Express charges 2 76 

$158 42 

P)alance on hand $36 58 

Geo. K. Ward, Treasurer. 

The P>oard of Directors, to whom was referred the Treasurer's re- 
port for audit, reported through .Mr. James R. Purroiighs that the same 
was found to he correct. 

These reports were, u]iou motion, accepted by the Association. 

Mr. Giarles Seabury Ward, of Morris Plains, N. J., chairman of 
the Executive Committee, presented amendments to the Constitution 
of the Association, wdiich, upon motion, were adui)te(l, and the .Secre- 
tary was authorized to make the changes recommended. The Consti- 
tution as amended is as follows : 

Che Association of Descendants of Jindrew Ulard 

COXSTITI'TIOX. 
Rest)lution : The oniccrs elccicd at the hrst meeting of the Asso- 
ciation, June 2l.sl. i"/)4, and the committees subsetpiently apjiointed, 
shall hold office until the .iiinual meeting of 1908. 

Ak'nciJ': L— Name. 

The name of this .Association shall he "The Association of Descend- 
ants of .\n<Irew Ward." 



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ARTICLE II.— Object. 

The object of the Association shall be to foster closer union between 
the descendants of Ajidrevv and Esther Sherman Ward, of Fairfield, 
Conn., to honor the memory of our ancestors, to preserve the records 
and traditions of the family, to co-operate in the erection of a suitable 
monument to Andrew Ward, and to emulate the worthy example of our 
forefathers. 

ARTICLE III.— Membership. 

All descendants of Andrew Ward shall be entitled to membership 
in the Association upon payment of the initiation fee of one dollar, 
and shall enjoy thereafter the rights and privileges of the organization, 
including receipt, without charge, of the report of exercises at reunions. 

ARTICLE IV.— Dues. 

Section i. Each member of the Association shall pay to the Secre- 
tary-Treasurer the sum of one dollar each year, the payment to become 
due one year after the initiation fee has been paid, and at the expiration 
of every year thereafter. 

Section 2. Membership shall lapse unless the payment is made 
within three months after notification by the Secretary-Treasurer that 
it is due. 

Section 3. The payment of ten dollars at one time shall constitute 
a life membership, not subject to the payment of further dues. 

ARTICLE v.— Reunions. 

Section i. Reunions shall be held upon the second Thursday of 
May, 1905, and upon the second Thursday of May of each succeeding 
third year. 

Section 2. There shall be licld an annual meeting of the Associa- 
tion the second Thursday in January of each year, excepting reunion 
years, when the annual meeting shall be held at the reunion. 

ARTICLE VI.— Officers. 
Section i. The officers of the Association shall be a President, 

First Mce- President, eighteen Second Vice-Presidents, and a Secretary- 
Treasurer. 

Section 2. The President shall preside at all meetings, appoint 
committees, and discharge the duties usually appertaining to that office. 

Section 3. The First Vice-President shall perform the duties of 
the President, in the event of his absence or disability. 

Section 4. The Second Vice-Presidents shall perform the duties 
of the President, or First Vice-President, in the event of their absence, 
and shall serve in the order of their seniority. 



14 THE REUNION 

Section 5. Tlio Secretary-Treasurer shall have charge of the mem- 
bership list, send out all reports, notices, etc. He shall have charge 
of all funds of the Association, and shall give a bond in the sum of 
$500.00 for the safe keeping of the same. 

Section 6. The President. First V^ice-President and Secretary- 
Treasurer, together with the Executive Committee, shall constitute 
the Board of Directors, and they shall have general charge of the 
affairs of the Association. 

Section 7. The ['resident. Secretary-Treasurer and Chairman of 
the Executive Conmiiitee shall constitute a nominating committee, who 
shall nominate Presidents. First \'ice-Presidents. Second Vice-Presi- 
dents. Secretary-Treasurer. These nominations shall be sent by the 
Secretary to all the members of the Association at least one month 
before the annual meeting, who shall return the same with their ap- 
proval or disapproval endorsed thereon. If the nominations thus made 
shall receive the endorsement of the majority of the members to whom 
the nominations were sent, they shall l)e declared elected at the annual 
meeting. 

Section 8. Officers shall be elected to serve three years, or until 
their successors are elected. X'acancies may be filled by the Board of 
Directors. 

ARTICLE VIII.— Committees. 

Section 1. There shall be three standing committees, viz.: An 
Executive Committee, a Reunion Committee, and a Memorial Com- 
mittee. 

Section 2. The Executive Committee shall consist of three mem- 
l;ers, the officers of the Association not being eligible. They shall 
audit bills and accounts, and approve and hold tlie lx:)nd of the Secre- 
tary-Treasurer. 

Sectir>n 3. Tlu' Reunion Committee shall consist of frt^n nine to 
fifteen members, at the discretion of the President, and shall have 
charge oi all arrangements for reunions. 

Section 4. The Memorial Committee shall consist of sixteen mem- 
bers, and shall secure and hold contributions for a monument to Andrew 
Ward ; the Secretary-Treasurer shall be chairman ex-officio. 

Section 5. The standing committees shall hold office for three 
years, or until their successors shall have been appointed. V'acancies 
for unexpired terms to be filled by the Executive Committee. 



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Officers for 1904-190$ 

President. 
Edward Trunihull Ward, Santa Barbara, Cal. ' , 

first I ' ice-President. 
airistopher L. Ward, Wilmington, Del. 

Second Vice-Presidents. 
Gen. Joseph Wheeler. U. S. A., Cleveland, Ohio. 
Prof. Henry A. Ward, Chicago, 111. 
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D., Roxbury. Mass. 
William Ward, Naugatuck, Conn. 

Prof. Everett Ward Olmsted, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
C. W. DeLyon Nichols, New York City. 
Dr. Wm. Shaw Ward, Denver, Col. 
Sylvester L. H. Ward, New York City. 
Prof. Chas. H. Smith, Yale College, New Haven, Conn. 
John H. Perry, Southport, Conn. 
John Edward Heaton, New Haven, Conn. 
Lieut. Col. Chas. H. Whipple, U. S. A., Faribault, Minn. 
Howard H. Knapp, Bridgeport, Conn. 
Mrs. Edward M. Townsend, Oyster Bay, N. Y. 
Mrs. Alfred C. Howland. New York City. 

Executive Committee. 
Giarles Seabury Ward, Chairman, Morris Plains, N. J. ; James R. 
Burroughs, Bridgeport, Conn. ; Mrs. Caroline Clarke Allen. Roches- 
ter, N. Y. 

Secretary- Treasurer. 

Rev. Geo. Kemp Ward, 453 West 123d street. New York City. 

Note. — All persons eligible to membership will be enrolled upon 
receipt of the initiation fee, by the Secretary-Treasurer. 

The following letter from the President of the Association was then 
read by the Secretary: 

Santa Barbara, Cal., April 29, 1905. 

To the descendants of Andrew Ward I send a cordial greeting. 

It is a matter of great regret to me that I am unable to be present 
at a very remarkable event, but even here I shall give the day to 
thoughts of you, and I shall be with you in the spirit as you visit the 
land — ^the very spot whereon stood the "Old Homstall," and see the 
last "Will and testament" of the founder of our family, the gravestone 
of Hester Lord, and other memorials. 



lb THE REUNION 

1 think you will he pleased lo know how this Association came to 
I e a fact, so as brietly as possible I will give you an account of my part 
in it. which, by the way. is very insignificant. 

.Mv brotluT. Dr. Charles Samuel Ward, being forced to retire from 
the practice of medicine b\ reason of ill healtli, became deeply inter- 
ested in tile history of the family, and in this pursuit his labors also 
became of great value to others in tracing other lines. After his death, 
which occurred while 1 was absent from this country. I came into pos- 
session of such of his ])apers as had not been destroyed, and among 
them found an inscrijjtion for a memorial stone, a stone in the ca]>itol 
at Hartford. Conn., to be selected, and this inscription to be cut thereon. 
The thought occurred to me to see if I could interest the descendants 
of "Andrew" to the ])oint of erecting a memorial in Fairfield. To 
this end 1 began a correspondence w-ith many members of the family, 
and with only one exception received favorable answers ; and one 
of us. Mr. I\. IVcl W'akeman, became the first subscriber, and prom- 
ised to add to his contribution. (I have his contribution now. and I 
think it has drawn some interest.) xA.bout this time my mother died, 
and 1 removed to California in not good health, but always intending 
to carry out the memorial plan. 

(Jne day. to my great joy, 1 received a communication from George 
Kemp Ward, followed uj) by another from Sylvester Ward, telling 
me that there was niich hope for an association of the descendants, 
and asking for such papers as I might have. The rest you know, and 
I shall only add that it is to these gentlemen that we owe our present 
organizati<m, which is intended to be a jjermanent and lasting organi- 
zation, an organization to last until the last descendant is laid to rest. 
Such is the ])urpose of its founders, and I have no fears for its future. 
Conceived in a proper spirit, and with a laudable object, it cannot fail. 
Now. with my best wishes for a day to be long remembered, I am 

Sincerely yours, 

Ei>wARD Trumbull Ward. 

JIddre$$-Cbe Ulard }lncc$trv in england 

EMOm' Mr( I.l .\ roCK, Ml iKKISIOW.N, .N. I. 

I ought to explain, ladies and gentlenun. that the program stating 
that I have a i)aper to read, contains a mistake. Some papers were 
handed to me last Thursday b\ our Secretary, who said that our Vice- 
I 'resident, (jeneral Wheeler, bad bi-i-n expected to prepare an address 
on this subject, but iiad been prevented by illness. He is able to be 



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with us t()-(la\, luit was imt able to prepare the address, an ! the Sec- 
retary asked me if 1 would not take u]) this suhjecl and till (General 
Wheeler's ]dace for the moment. I said that I would he ijlad to do 
so, hut would not he able to write an address, and so 1 will merely talk 
in a eonversational way, and read from some of these papers, and one 
or two of my own. 

Andrew Ward will be heard about this afternoon. T am confined 
to Andrew Ward's ancestry. 

Andrew Ward's ancestry was undoubtedly a g'ood ancestr\-, because 
he took his place immediately in the affairs of the colony, although 
probably a man not over 35 }ears old at the time of the immigration 
fn)m \\'atertown, which settled the town of W^ethersfield. afterward 
decided to be the oldest town on the river and in the State. Ward 
was the only man who was a member both of the committee to gov- 
ern the colony, and of the committee of church members wdio were 
appointed to establish the Christian religion in the new colony. 

There were six members of the original church who \vere deputed 
ro establish the Christian church in the new colonx' on the river. He 
headed the list. There were a number, some six or eight, of gentle- 
men appointed by the General Court of Massachusetts to establish 
the Colony of Connecticut and govern it until a government should 
be inaugurated. He was not the first of this list, and the fact that he 
was not the first, but the last, makes me think he was not an old m.an, 
but a man in the prime of life. This is particularly indicated by the 
fact which Dr. Stiles in his recently published book on W^ethersfield 
indicates, viz., that Andrew Ward was probably one of the first eight 
men, who came a year before the colony was organized, to the site 
of Wethersfield, and planted some corn, and decided that there should 
be a colony there. That is, while the colony was established in 1635, 
these men, possibly eight or nine, or more, came in 1(1^4.. in the sum- 
mer, and did preliminary work, and went back for the rest, who came 
over the following spring. 

In every way, therefore, both as a pioneer — one of the very first 
to come — and as the one man of all others wdio was on both commis- 
sions of church and state, Andrew Ward was flic founder of Con- 
necticut. He did not appear as prominently as Ludlow, wdio was named 
as Governor, but he did more for the colony than Ludlow, who soon 
got into trouble and left the colony. He was not only the founder of 
Wethersfield, but he was, I feel sure, the man who named Wethers- 
field, because he was the onlv man in the Council w ho came from there 



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and tliat could have named the town. He also founded Stamford, 
and he died in Fairfield, one of the most eminent, capahle men in the 
colony. I'ntil the \ear of his death he was deputy of Fairfield, and 
his family has alwavs held the highest rank since in the State of Con- 
necticut and other States. 

He nuist. therefore, liave had g^ood ancestry, but the trouble has 
been to find the ancestry, l-'or a long time there was a widely believed 
statement afloat that Andrew Ward was the son of Richard Ward, but 
that was undoubtedly a mistake, for reasons which I have not time to 
enter upon. On the other hand, it has been as good as known to a 
\erv few for many vears that he was a ^'raudson of Richard Ward. 
This fact comes to me from two sources, both of them at the instance 
of our Secretary. One source is from the sister of our \'ice-President, 
who writes to me. giving me a copy of the pedigree of Andrew Ward, 
written in a lx>ok by her brother, Christopher L. Ward. C)f this letter 
1 will read the following extract : 

"Richard Ward of Homersfield in his will dated Sept. 7, 

^597' ^<^^t £333 to his son Andrew Ward of Gorleston, who was twice 
married. His son Andrew had a son Andrcw^who came to New Eng- 
land in 1630. and his wife Aiuic had as their fifth and youngest son. 
Andrew Ward of Corleston." 

That Andrew Ward, the son oi Richard, had a son Andrew, who 
came to this country, is corroborated from an entirely different source. 
also sui>i)lied to me by our Secretary, and it is this. The Chairman 
of our F.xecutive Committee has in his possession a letter written forty 
years ago by .Mr. Roswell Butler Ward, of Hartford. Mr. R. B. Ward, 
who wrote this letter in 1865, was the son of Col. James Ward, of 
Ilartf(jrd. who was known to have been deeply interested in the gene- 
alog\- of the Ward family. He had extensive corresj^ondence with 
Mr. Horatio Ward who went into it in England. Mr. R. B. Ward 
wrote to his sister a letter, in which this occurs: "In a manuscript 
account of a journey through Suffolk in i('>S7' k^' ^ ^^^- Leverland, 
it is stated that the descendants of this Andrew Ward were then in 
.\'iw hjigland. ' 

In other words, descendants of Andrew Ward were settled in 
New I'"ngland at a time when our Andrew Ward was still living. These 
two pieces ui evidence are almost conclusive, although the ])recise place 
where we can find tlu- manuscrij)t we are unable to tell, as yet; but 
having a clue, we shall iiope soon to find these facts. The two bits of 
testimony connng together can hardly, on any hyjxDthesis, be regarded 
as based on any mistake of copxing, or the like. 



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I think we may, therefore, take it as practically certain that otir 
Andrew Ward was son of another Andrew, one of the five sons of 
Richard Ward, of Gorleston, in Enp^land, who was lord of a manor 
there, and who had ])roperty in several parts of the country which 
was left to his children. 

If anvone present would like to have detailed reasons why it is 
impossihle, in my judgment, that the original Andrew Ward could 
be our Andrew Ward, I will be glad to inform them. I can speak of 
it only briefly now. There were five sons of Richard Ward. The 
oldest was Henr}-, born in the year 1559, and the fourth was Ralph. 
Ralph married a lady who was born in 1572. Now the next son, and 
the youngest, was Andrew, and Andrew's wife could not, naturally, 
be expected to have been born in 1606. So far as ages are concerned, 
thev go to show that it was a grandson, and not a son, who came to 
this country. 

Now as regards Richard Ward, his will was probated in the Bishop's 
Court in 1598. He gave to his son Henry all his lands in Horstead 
and Stoninghall, in Norfolk ; to his son Richard all his lands, tene- 
ments, etc., in Metfield, Wethersdale, Menham, Sandcroft, Homers- 
field, St. Michaels and Flixton, in Suffolk, and all his remaining lands 
in Norfolk ; to his son Andrew 333 pounds ! He was succeeded by 
his son Henry Ward, lord of the manor, who was born in 1559 and 
died in 1645. He sold the manor to people of another name and moved 
to Norfolk, where the family continued for one or two generations, 
and then died out without issue. So' much for the family of Richard 
Ward, the father of Andrew Ward, and of whom our Andrew was 
doubtless the grandson. 

There is a published pedigree of Andrew Ward. I want to warn 
you not to trust it. It has a great many errors in it. It has been de- 
nounced as good for nothing by one of the Heralds' College in Lon- 
don, and by an authority on genealogy (Phillimore) outside of the 
Heralds' College. 

We do not know that Richard Ward was the son of Thomas Ward, 
of Homersfield, in the northeast corner of Sufifolk. Thomas \\'ard 
married the daughter of Dr. John Hare. Richard Ward married the 
daughter of Richard Gunville. of Gorleston, and his wife inherited 
the manor from her brother, Henry, whose widow died in 1580: and 
at his widow's death it passed to the wife of Richard Ward. The Gun- 
ville family and the Hare family have been traced back as far as pos- 
sible, and the result was published in the Boston Transcript some two 
or three years ago. 



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There is an t)Kl and famous family of (ioiivillcs in Sufifolk, and this 
fainilv is l)fhcvc(l to he related to them, hecause they have the sam.' 
arms as the more illustrious Gonvilles fan:ily who founded Gon\ille 
College, and the names of some of their descendants are given in this 
statement; hut the exact connection hetweui the older Gonville family 
r-nd the (lonville family of Gorleston is not directly traced, although 
a connection is plain from the arms. The heralds are very particular 
not to give the same arms to ]XM-sons who arc not of the same fauidy. 
even if the names are the same. It \\:'s a nile that the consent of ihe 
heralds had al\va\s to he ohtained before any family could get the 
arms, unless it was the same family; and the arms of this Gunville 
family are the same as those of the earlier Gonvilles. 

As for the Hare family, there is a similar pedigree traced down 
to this John Hare, who became a doctor of laws, and was a man of 
property, and died in 1526. His daughter married Thomas Ward. His 
father was Nicholas Hare, who was the son of John Hare. There 
is a pul)lished book which makes out that the father of Nicholas Hare 
was Hugh, but this need not be taken u]). hecause the fact that they 
belonged to the same family is obvious. 

Thus, the Ward family was undoubtedly a good family. It is 
impossible that this Richard Ward could have sprung suddenly into 
riches simply because he married the lady of Gorleston. His father 
was also a rich man. because he owned property- at Homersfield, where 
his father came from. Although we do not know for certain the an- 
cestry of Thomas Ward, his father, it is quite likely that it may be 
connected with the Ward familx which is contained in the ]>ublished 
I edigree 1 have sjjoken of. Many persons have attempted to prove 
this, but the actual ])roof has not yet been found. Still the fact that 
this Thomas Ward was a countrv gentleman, and the owner of prop- 
erty, is well certified, and he must have inherited it from his father 
or mother. Tliis is practically certain, because in those days it was 
very unconnnon fur people to make money in trade and then settle in 
the country and fMund families. 

.So that our Andrew Ward himsGf came of a Ward family which 
was of good lande(l stock in SulTolk, ])erhai)s earlier in Norfolk; his 
grandmother. .\nne ("inn\ille, came of another noted family, and his 
father, kichard Ward, was the son of a lady named Hare, who came 
of another noted fannly. Whatever slight doubts mav still l)e remain- 
ing in our minds, everything ],oints to the fact that these will be cleared 
up in no long time. 








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Cunchcon.— One P. m. 

From Report in Bridgeport (Conn.) Tclci^raiii. 

At one o'clock there was luncheon at the Cong-regational Oiapel. 
served hy the following; ladies: Mrs. I'rancis II. I'.rewer, Chairman; 
Mrs. Child. Mrs. lUirr. Mrs. Rennett, .Mrs. IVrry. .Miss Ki])pen. iwd 
the following waitresses: Misses Wakeman, Eleanor Morehouse Child, 
Theodora and Grace Giild, Corwin, Oshorn, Perry. Burr and Smith. 
The tables were profusely decorated with tulii)S and Bride roses, and 
the menu consisted of a variety of meats, salads, cake, ice cream, cof- 
fee, etc. 

There were speeches in response to the toasts by C. W. DeL^'on 
Nichols, of New York, and William W ard, of Xaugatuck. The toast- 
master was Dr. I'.rownlee R. Ward, of .\ew Haven, who called upon 
Rev. Newell J. Cornwall, of Portland. Comi.. to ask the blessing. Th 
Secretarv read letters of regret from the following absent members : 
Elizalxth D. Ward, of Pasadena. Cal. ; Jo.seph E. P. Lord. New York: 
Mrs. Jane .M. Taft. Burlington. Yt. ; Henry S. \Yard. Springfield, 
Mass.": Mrs. I-:. W. Ballard. Troy. Penn. ; Dr. Edward Everett Hale, 
Washington, D. C. ; Col. H. W. Wessells. Litchfield, Conn. At this 
time Mrs. Bassett sang, and was accompanied by Miss Florence Wake- 
man and again by Miss Corwin. After the exercises were over the 
companv departed to view points of interest in the vicinity, the weather 
being ideal, and the beautiful green lawns of the church and the com- 
mon being most attractive under the warm sun of the fine May day. 
.\jnong the places visited was the old bur\ing ground in the rear of 
the town hall, where it is supposed the remains of this distinguished 
ancestor were laid, though all trace of the grave has long since disa])- 
jieared. 

The only tombstone of the earl_\- colonial members of the familx' 
of Andrew Ward is that of his granddaughter, Esther Ward, a con- 
spicuously wealth}- widow, who was four limes married, and was the 
daughter of Ensign Williain Ward, of Fairfield. Esther Ward was. 
in consc(|uence of her many marriages — all of which were happy ones 
— the forbear of about two-tliirds of the older residents of Fairfield 
to-day. Mr. < )liver Could Jeup.ings. Miss .\nna Jennings, Mrs. William 
P.. Clover, and the Misses Gould, cousins of the late Jay Gould, whom 
Miss Helen Gould visits every summer, are also descendants of Andrew 
Wanl. 

The monument committee will prepare a suitable monument of 
some character to be erected in the town in i\uc lime. One of the 



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(^ifficers of the Executive Committee of the Association is James Richard 
lUirrinig'hs, of this cit}'. After the convention had adjourned, a i)hf)- 
tograph of the members of the Association was made on the steps of 
the hiiilihng. 

W'ilham J. Nichols, of liridgeport, and Robert P. Wakeman. of 
Sonthport, were appointed by tlie (hrectors as Second Vice-Presidents. 

A vote of regret and symj^athy was tendered to the family of the 
late Thomas Cooke W'ordin, who was one of the Committee on Con- 
stitution. ' 

Among those present were the following : Samuel H. Wheeler, 
Ellen R. Wheeler, Theodora Wheeler. Erederick A. Bnrr, William 
Burr, Henry C. Sturges, Mrs. Wm. B. Glover, William Osborne Burr, 
Emma E. Wakeman, Mrs. ]\Iary E. M. Jennings, Eairfield, Conn; Mrs. 
Eliza A. Bulkley, ^Irs. Benjamin S. Bulkley, Richard A. Perry, Robert 
P. Wakeman, Southport, Conn. ; Alexander Meigs Ward, Erederick 
Meiers Ward, Mrs. Mary Ward Gilbert, Thomas G. Gilbert, Mrs. Kate 
Eoote Coe, Prof. Chas. Henry Smith, Dr. Brownlee Robertson Ward. 
Erederick Wells Campbell, Mrs. Mary Ward Campbell, New Haven, 
Conn. : Mrs. Anna Gilbert Livingston, Sylvester L. H. Ward, C. W. 
De Lyon Nichols, Chas. B. Hawley, Ruth Ward, New York City ; Geo. 
L. Comstock, Mrs. Katherine Eoote Comstock, Mechanicsburg, Pa. ; 
Allen Ward, Halstead, Pa. ; John Graham Moseley, Helen Graham 
Moseley, Boston, Mass. ; Augusta Wheeler. Jeanette Booth. Stratford, 
Conn. ; Qara Mossman Hill, Norwalk, Conn. ; William Ward, Nau- 
gatuck. Conn. ; Mrs. Josephine Ward Isbell. Stamford, Conn. ; Rev. 
Newell J. Cornwall, Portland, Conn. ; ^Mrs. S. B. Beach, Long HiU, 
Conn.; Mrs. L. Walter Clarke. Mrs. Chas. D. Alton, Mrs. Harriet E. 
G. Whitmore, Hartford, Conn. ; Mrs. May Chichester Woolverton, 
Scarsdale, N. Y. ; Gen. Joseph Wheeler, U. S. A., Washington, D. C. : , 
Gias. Seabury Ward, Morris Plains, N. J. : Mrs. Sarah E. Townsend. 
Oyster Bay, L. L. N. Y. ; Rev. Geo. K. Ward, Elizabeth Clarke, Mary 
Gabrielle Clarke, Rochester, N. Y. ; Erank Grant, Martha Grant, West- 
field, Mass. ; Emory McClintock, Morristown, N. J. ; Mary Katherine 
Wheeler, Mabel D. Wheeler, D. Eairchild Wheeler, Sarah Curtis 
Wheeler, Lilian Cordelia Wheeler, Antoinette Eairchild Wheeler, Mrs. 
Helen Wheeler Harral, Lizzie AL Wheeler Parrott, Mrs. Edith Wheeler 
Cole, Mrs. Susan A. Olds, Mrs. Mary L. Prowd, Julia E. h\airchild. 
Jas. R. Burroughs, Mrs. Mary Wells Burroughs, Mary J. Sherwood, 
Carolyn Ward Chapman. Martha Edwards Beach, Mrs. Joseph Torrey, 
Caroline J. Calef, Susan Olmsted, Bridgeport, Conn. 








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Mr. C. W. De Lyon Nichols was Ccilled u])on, and spoke as follows: 

Gentlemen and Ladies, Members of the Andrew Ward Association 
anrl Descendants of Andrew Ward: It is unfortnnate that I cannot 
y)lead. with one of the characters of one of Moliere's comedies, who 
said that he always made his best speech when suddenly called upon 
for an extemporaneous efifort, but as 1 was warned some time ago, I 
am unal)Ie to make such an excuse. 

One remarkable circumstance which the old town of Stamford 
shares with Fairfield is that the majority of the original settlers were 
what is known as Cavalier-Puritans. In Stamford and Fairfield there 
were a number of dissenting Cavaliers. I mention this fact because 
there are few towns in New England where there was so large a pro- 
portion of Cavaliers as in the old towns of Stamford and Fairfield, and 
we can appreciate this, to a certain extent to our sorrow, because most 
of their descendants have spent half of their lives answering letters 
about these first settlers of Stamford and Fairfield. 

A few }'ears ago I happened to be at a reception given by our 
American Ambassador at Rome. Two Western ladies, unmindful of 
the fact that the reception was a private one, came in and rushed up 
to the Ambassador to ask to be presented at court the following week. 
The Ambassador was allowed only sixteen presentations at that time, 
and politely said it was impossible. One of the ladies began to tell of 
the importance of her ancestors, how they were some of the first to set- 
tle in this country, and finally said that one of them had accompanied 
William the Conqueror to England. The xAmbassador enjoyed repartee, 
and asked them if they hadn't better leave William the Conqueror out, 
and then asked them if they had found a bar sinister in the family. 
The lady replied that she would look the matter up, and order her jew- 
eler to have a bar sinister put on her letter paper at once. lUit 1 have 
noted specially in looking up the records of our ancestry that they 
came from good stock, not only from the start, but on down through 
the generations, and you don't come upon the ludicrous things that 
you find in the patriotic chapters. 

It was my fortune at one time to attend school in Rochester, New 
A'ork, and I recollect, although I was a mere boy, that the families 
looked up to as among the leading families of the place — and Rochester 
is a thoroughly refined place — in the intellectual, social and professional 
spheres, were Wards, or descendants of Wards. The old mansion of 
the Wards in Rochester is an imposing place in itself. So my first 



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inij)rcssion of llu' Wards was f^otton \\it1i<nit thv IkIj; of any jrenealogi- 
oal tables. 

I became acquainted witli Dr. Cliarles Samuel Wiird during a suni- 
ir.er vacation here, and becanu' interested in the old families of Fair- 
tield and the neighborhood. .\t that time IMr. Nichols, of Xew York, 
took a notion that he would like to start a magazine, and as he had 
seen some of my writings on the subject, he came to me to write some 
genealogical articles for him. I said that if he would take some articles 
on the old families of .Stamford and Fairfield that I would do so. I 
took up the Ward family, and Dr. Charles Samuel Ward gave me much 
information. The interest the article created in the Ward family was 
widespread, and probably started the founding of the W^ard Family 
.Association, although the accomplishment of this remains entirely with 
Mr. Christopher W'ard and your Secretary 

.\s I said before, Andrew Ward was probably one of those pioneers 
who were of Cavalier families, and they lived like Cavaliers, and one 
needs only to read their wills to find proof of it. As I was reading 
the will of Caleb Xichols 1 found that l;e and his daughter lived in great 
luxury and state. 

Another fact of interest is to mention some of the famous descend- 
ants of Andrew Ward. A.mong them were Commodore Hull, of the 
Constitution: V.'illiam Mull. Rev. PhiK) Shelton, the first Episcopal 
clergyman to be ordained in America, more than one hundred vears 
ago; another descendant was Stephen Burroubhs. the inventor of the 
decimal system : llridgej.^ort's greatest benefactress. Catherine Bur- 
roughs, the founder of the P)Urroughs Public Library, the builder of the 
P.urroughs Home, which is the admiration of this whole section of the 
.State, and also of the .Memorial Clnpel of St. John's Church. Among 
other descendants are John Burroughs, the naturalist; ("jcneral Joseph 
Wheeler, who is with us to-day. and George I". Peabody. the Xew York 
banker and philanthropist. 

William Ward, of Xaugatuck. Conn., was called u[)on. and spoke 
as follows : 

Ladies and Gentlenun : 1 arise in some embarrassment, because I 
have had no intimation that 1 was expi'cted to make an\ remarks, and 
especially after the elcxiiunl remarks which liave lieeu made 1)\- the 
gentleman of culture and education, 1 feel somewhat embarrassed. Still 
f may say this, thai I take a dee]) interest in (he success of this Asso- 
ciation. .Some twenty or twenty-five years ago it was niv lot to be 
spenflint,^ a few months in the western part of this countr\— in Colorado 



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— and wliilt.' thinking;- of lionic and old associations T rrnicmlrred that 
a genllenian wlio hatl lived in New Haven said he iiad been c'lllcd upon 
by one of tin- Ward family in the State of Massachusetts to hunt up 
the recortls conccrnini;- the Wards of Wethersfield and Meriden. He 
told me that he had done so, and had. been promised a book when it 
was printed. I resolved then and there that T would get that book when 
I went l)ack to Connecticut, and tluit I would know something about 
the Ward family. I found that the gentleman had passed away and 
his widow knew nothing of the book, if he had ever received it. 

I felt the desire to know something about the Ward family. 1 cor- 
responded with the Massachusetts Society, and found that the book 
had been published, but was out of print. I hunted through old book 
stores, and was fortunate enough to find a copy in Xew York. [ was 
rejoiced, and thought I should know all about my ancestr}-. I sat 
up until two o'clock in the morning, but could not catch on to m\- 
father's family in that book. It was the history of William Ward, of 
Sudbury, Mass. I tried it a second night, but was disappointed, and 
threw the book down on the table and said I would hunt up the Ward 
family myself. 

I wrote a lot of letters, called to see some descendants, and had 
fair success, but it w^as hard work, and I was in business and was pretty 
busy : but I collected what I could. I gave what I had gotten to the 
Secretary, and trust he found some benefit from it. It was a disap- 
pointment to me that I could not finish the work, but I have done my 
part, and I hope that it will soon be completed and published. I hope 
all the Wards will get in it ; I guess there will be ten thousand if they 
all come, but there are several thousand if we get them all. and I hope 
we will succeed. 

Speaking of the incidents that grew out of the search. I had one 
or two remarkable experiences. There was a lady in a town not far 
from Fairfield from whom I wanted to get what information I could 
about her family. I thought I had met her husband, who was a "Ward," 
somewhere, and requested my sister to go and see her. She went, and 
met with a cold reception. The woman shut the door in her face and 
said. "I guess you don't belong to our family." My sister told me 
I need not send her on any more such errands. So one day I went to 
see her myself. She opened the door about as wide as one of these 
plates are. and asked what I wanted. I said 1 was interested in the 
Ward family, and was looking u]) their history to some extent ; I un- 
derstood her name was A\'ard. and wanted to get a little information, 



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if she would be so kind. She said she guessed 1 (hchi't belong to her 
family, and began to shut the door. Then I asked her quickly if her 
husbantl wasn't William Ward, the blacksmith. She said, "How do 
you know he was a blacksmith? Did you know him? Come right 
in." And she told me all she knew, and called her scni to tell me all 
he could about the W an! family. 

I have taken up more time than I meant to. I wish you all suc- 
cess. 1 hope we will have many more of these reunions, and that those 
engaged in the work will persevere, and that the book may be pub- 
lished, and then I am sure we will all be hap])y. 

Mr. h>ederick Akigs Ward, Chairman of the ReLUiion Committee, 
mentioned some of the points of interest in the neighborhood, the origi- 
nal Andrew^ Ward plot, the Probate Court where the wills could be 
read, and the cemetery where Andrew Ward is supposed to have been 
buried. 

Mr. Alexander Meigs Ward was announced as bemg the patriarch 
of the Ward family, being eight\-nine years old. 

JJftcrnoon Scssicn 

Owing to the absence of General Wheeler, who was obliged to keep 
an appointment in Xew York, Vice-President Sylvester L. H. Ward, of 
Xew York City, was called to the chair. 

The exercises began with the singing by the congregation of Dr. 
Leonard IJacon's "Forefathers' Hymn." 

O God, beneath Thy guiding hand 

Our exiled fathers crossed the sea. 
And when they trod the wintr\- strand. 

W ith pra\er and ])salm they worshipped Thee. 

Thou heard'st. well pleased, the song, the prayer — 

Thy blessir.g came : and still its power 
Shall onward through all ages bear 

The memory of tliat hoi}' hour. 

Laws, freedrtm, truth, and faith in God 

Came with those exiles o'er the waves, 
And where their pilgrim feet have trod, 

The God they trusted guards their graves. 

And lure Thy name. < ) (nu\ ot' Ujve, 

Their children's childrtn shall adore, 
Till these eternal hills remove, 

And spring adorns the earth no more. 



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This was followed ])\ the vocal selection, 

"Spring's Awakrning" — Hawley ; 
Miss Ruth W'anl, \e\v \nyk I'ity. 
As Mr. C. I'.. Hawley. the coni])oser of this selection, and the ac- 
conipani.-^t, and Miss Ruth Ward, the vocalist, are hoth descendants 
of Andrew Ward, the numljer was received with threat enthusiasm. 

Rev. George Kent]) Ward, of Rochester, N. Y., Secretary of the 
Association, then read a paper entitled 

" Andrew Ulard and f)H Children." 

.\ verv intelligent and channino- old lady, who, in the course of 
her threescore years and ten. had drifted from her early Xew England 
home down to southern Texas, when corresponding with your Secre- 
tary u]:cm matters genealogical, expressed a desire to know something 
about him, a very natural desire, by the way, since he had, first of all, 
mentioned his desire to know all that she could tell him about herself. 
Bv wav of answer I gave her some items regarding ni}- ancestry, my 
preparatory studies, and my present profession, together with some 
data regarding my family. In responding, she humorously remarked: 
*T observe that you are of the class of Princeton, "69 — consequently 
are past the flush of youth. A cousin of mine once said to me : AVhen 
people begin to look up their pedigree it is a sure sign that they are 
growing old." " 

You will pardon the personal reference, I am sure, since it serves 
to call attention to' a fact that is not only well established, but also a 
fact that has been borne in upon my mind with new force during the 
past two years, namely, that as we get beyond the middle period of 
life we begin to inquire into the past, rather than into the present or 
future. I have found a much deeper interest manifested in the Andrew- 
Ward Association among the persons who have passed the half-century 
mark than in those who are under fifty. 

However it may be with people in general, we of the Andrew Ward 
familv may well be excused for turning proudly and gratefully to the 
traditions of former years ; to a long line of ancestors, distinguished 
alike in morals, religion and capacity for affairs ; a goodly heritage, 
for which we should thank God, and take courage. 

The Reunion Committee has laid upon me the pleasant and respon- 
sible dutv of gathering together the data relating to Andrew Ward 
and his children, and to the result of my investigations I now ask jour 
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Permit nic to remark, by way of introduetion, that tlic statements 
which follow are. for the most i)art. capable of historic verification, 
and that the traditional parts of tlie narrative are distinctly mentioned 
as such, so that we shall have no difficulty in discriminatin<T^ between 
the facts, and the inferences or conjectures drawn therefrom. 

I may also add that while the references to Andrew^ Ward and his 
family, gathered from genealogical libraries, from standard historical 
works, from biographical volumes, and from private collections, are 
unusually full and satistactory, yet there are some breaks in the chain 
of events, where conjecture comes into play, and where the most care- 
ful research fails to bring to light an)- positive proof. As regards dates 
of births, marriages and deaths, the early biographers of this family 
are not always found to be in accord, while in some instances it has 
been found to be entirely impossible to secure any dates at all. 

Having thus cautioned you against accepting unequivocally all that 
shall follow, permit me to introduce to you our worthy ancestor. An- 
drew Ward, said to have been the grandson of Richard and Anne 
(Gunville) Ward of Gorleston and Homersfield, Suft'olk County, Eng- 
land. The coat of arms which appears upon the certificate of mem- 
bership of the Andrew Ward Association is the one which was granted 
to his reputed grandfather. Richard Ward, July 12, 1593. 

Born in England, probably near the beginning of the seventeenth 
centurv, Andrew Ward, while yet a comparatively young man, left 
his home and emigrated to New England. This is said to have been 
about the year 1630. Among his fellow voyageurs are said to have 
been John Winthrop, Jr., afterward Governor of ^lassachusetts ; Rev. 
Mr. Phillips, and other eniigrants from Sufifolk and Essex counties, 
who came across the sea to join that resolute and hardy band of pio- 
neers who were conquering a new world. We first hear of Andrew 
Ward at W'atertown. Mass.. where he early assumed prominence as a 
man of aiTairs m the small colony there established. His name is 
recorded in the second book of inventory, as having "an homestall of 
10 acres, by estimation, bounded, the east by the driftway and John 
Dogget, the west by Winifred Wolcott, and the north by the great 
Pond, granted him." 

He held this estate as late as the year 1642, some seven or more 
years after his removal from W'atertown. 

He was made freeman May 14, 1634. "Under the first charter 
of the Mass. colony none were regarded as freemen, or members of 
the body politic, except such as were admitted by the General Court, 



32 THK KKl^NION 

and ti^ok the (lath of allegiance to the (ioverniiK'nt here estahhshed. 
This custom contiiuiiiig- in existence until by the 2(1 charter the col- 
nii\- was transferred into a province." Mr. Savaq'e. in his edition ot 
Winthrop's journal, jniblished a list of jiersons achritted freemen un 
to May lo, 1648. In the list of freemen made .May 14. 1634, is found 
that of Andrew Ward. P.ond says: "Xo one liad a rioht to vote 
unless he was a freeman ; none could be adnn'tted a freeman unless he 
'vas a church member, and the church was Congregational, wherein 
its affairs were managed by the votes of the members. The church 
officers seem to have taken the lead, both in civil and ecclesiastical 
affairs, and it is probable that previous to 1634 the records were kept 
accortlingly. Whatever those records were they are now lost. * * * 
There is no record extant of any municipal transaction of Watertown 
of earlier date than 1634. four vears after its first settlement." 

So. knowing the man well from his re])utati(Mi in later years, and 
judging from the fact that he was honored with a place upon an im- 
portant commission, we may safely conclude that during those few 
vears of residence in Watertown, Andrew Ward was building for him- 
self a reputation for honesty of purpose, sagacity of insight, and skill 
in the direction of nnmicipal affairs : that he was growing every day 
in the esteem of his fellow men. and assuming the exalted ]xisition 
of a leader in all that ])ertained to the temporal and spiritual welfare 
of the community with which his lot was cast. The second period of 
his life was passed at Wethersfield. Conn. 1die occasion of his re- 
moval from Watertown to this place appears from a perusal of the 
minutes of the Bay Colony at its session held May 3. 1635-6. They are 
as follows : 

"A Commission graunted to severall persons to governe the People 
att Conecticott for the space of a Yeare. now nexte comeing. That 
some present governm't may be observed, thinke meete. & soe order. 
tiiat Roger Ludlowe I-'.scir. Willm I'ynchon Mscp-. John Steele, Win 
Swaine, Henry Snn'th. Willm Phelps. Willm Westwood, & Andrew 
Ward, or the greater p'le of them shall have full i)ower and aucthorite 
to hear and determine in a judiciall way b\ witnesses v])on oalhe. ex- 
amine within the said ]ilantacon. all those differences v 'ch may arise 
between 'partie & partie' as also \i)on misdemeanors to intlict cor])orall 
punishment or imprisonment to fline (Jv: kvy the same if occacon so 
re(|uirc." etc. * * * 

.Six jiublic cotu'ts of this Conimission were held during the year. 
Four of them at Xew Towne (llartford). one at Dorchester (Wind- 



THK RKUNION 33 

sor). and ruu at Walcrtow nc ( W'cthersfield ). Vhv last irootin,e[ of 
the Commissioners' Conrt hcfdre the expiration of their _\ear nf offiee 
was held Feb. 2ist, 1637. 

Following- out these instructions, Andrew Ward removed from 
Watertown, Mass., and settled with his family in Wethersfield. He 
was a member of the Upper House when war was declared against 
the Pequots, ]\Iay 1, 1637 (o. s.). This was the first formal asser- 
tion of the sovereignty of the Colony. He was twice a member of 
the Committee, or Lower House of the General Court in 1637, and of 
the same House again in 1638. He was Deputy for four sessions after 
the confederation of the three towns (Windsor, Hartford and Weth- 
ersfield) into a colony in 1639. Afterward he was frequent 1\ a mem- 
ber of both branches of the Gen'l Court. In 1637 he was a collector 
of rates, and in connection with Cap't John Mason and Mr. Allen he 
was ordered to go to Agawam (Springfield) and treat with the Indi- 
ans of W^aronocke (Westfield) concerning the tribute toward the 
charges (assessments) of our war. In 1637 he was a member of the 
church in Wethersfield, snd one of its staunchest and most esteemed 
supporters. Wethersfield, the oldest town in Connecticut, received 
■from Watertown its first considerable emigration in 1634. Pyquaug, 
its Indian name, was changed in 1635 to Watertown, and later to 
Wethersfield. The few persons known in the Wethersfield records as 
the "adventurers" (i. e., occupants of lands not deriving their title from 
town), were either in person, or by representatives, the settlers of 
1634. Stiles, the historian, remarks : "The interesting question natu- 
rally arises at this point, iclw were the hardy, we might almost say 
reckless, persons who first established themselves here? The problem 
is difficult of solution, and perhaps may never be settled beyond dis- 
pute. It is conceded that they were a mere handful in numbers, prob- 
ably not a dozen all told. There is little doubt that they were all from 
Watertown, ]\Iass. A church had been organized there as early as 
June, 1630. Under the leadership of Sir Richard Saltonstall, and the 
spiritual care of Rev. George Phillips, both of whom, in company with 
Governor Winthrop, had arrived there in June of that year." 

It was not until May of the following year that they had the per- 
mission of the General Court of Massachusetts "to remove whither they 
pleased so they continue under this government." W^ethersfield's ex- 
istence as a parish dates from the spring of 1636. The General Court 
of Connecticut, at its first session, April 26, 1636, ratified and con- 
firmed a dismissal of certain members of the Watertown (Mass.) 



34 THE REUNION 

church, whidi had been g^ranted on the 29th of Marcli, 1635. The per- 
sons thus (Hsmissed were: Andrew Ward, Rev. John Sherman, Robert 
Reynolds. John Strickland. Jonas Weed and Robert Coe. 

The first mentioned of this company was Andrew Ward. He was 
one of the foremost men of the colony, and seems to have left Water- 
town immediately after being admitted there as a freeman — May, 1634 
— and come to Wethersfield. or else some other person, acting in his 
interest, preceded him (he following in May. 1635) and took posses- 
sion for him of 20 acres of the "Adventurers' Land." Prior to his re- 
moval to Ripix)wanis (Stamford), in 1640, he sold these lands to 
Robert Rose, who already held the same amount in his own right. So, 
with these members of the Watertown church, our ancestor came to 
Wethersfield. 

Others, doubtless, were in the company, but these are mentioned as 
the leaders. They were authorized to form anew in a church covenant 
in Connecticut, and they pron^ised to renew the covenant, so the record 
of the General Court says. Mr. Ward was one of the five members then 
constituting that court. With the possible exception of Robert Rey- 
nolds, the persons named formed the nucleus of the new ecclesiastical 
society. 

In 1637, when the General Court was divided into an upper and a 
lower section, "Andrew Ward and William Swayne. Gentleman, became 
members of the upper section." and hence may be said to have been 
the first members of what would now be called the Senate, from Weth- 
ersfield. 

In the History of Connecticut, by Dr. Benjamin Trumbull, we find 
the following notes : 

"Mr. William Swayne, Mr. Thurston Raynor, Mr. Henry Smith, 
Mr. .\ndrew Ward, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. John Deming were some of 
tlK- chief men wlm scttkd the town of Wethersfield. These were the 
civil and religious fathers of the colony. They formed its free and 
hai)py constitution, were its legislators and some of the chief pillars of 
the church .-nid commonwealth. They, with many others of the same 
excellent character, employed their abilities and their estates for the 
])rosperity of the colony." 

Speaking of the court which assembled in Hartford on Monday, 
May I, 1637, he says: "As they were to deliberate on matters in which 
the lives of the subjects and the very existence of the colony were con- 
cerned, the towns for the first time sent committees. The spirited meas- 
ures ado])ted by this court rmdcr tlie names of the members worthy of 



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pcrjiettiation." The niai;"islraU's were Kosher Ludlow, ICsq., Mr. Welles, 
Mr. Swain. Mr. Steele, Mr. 1 'helps and .Mr. Ward. 

We now pass to the third period in the history of our aneestor. 
which hegan with his removal from Wcthersfield to the town which is 
now known as Stamford, Conn. In the Church of Christ to-day there 
are, as the Scri])ture saith, "differences of administration," or, as we 
should say, "diversity of talent." Some men are i)ccnliarly gifted as 
leaders of spiritual thoui^ht ; others have talent for stimulating" and 
turning into practical and elevating channels the social instinct of the 
members ; others possess marked capacity for leadershi]) in new enter- 
prizes. These last are the organizers, the men who assume and sustain 
the executive burdens of every scheme looking to the welfare of their 
particular church. 

The same diversity of talent is observable in the men who perform 
the duties of pioneers in the work of transforming rural settlements 
into towns and towns into cities and cities into great centers of indus- 
try. Some there are who seem to have developed very largely a love 
for and skill in the building up of the waste places into habitable homes, 
where men and women dwell in peace under the protection of just laws, 
enforced by righteous rulers. 

Andrew Ward seems to have had this intuitive love of town build- 
ing. He was a great organizer. W'ise in counsel, energetic in advanc- 
ing schemes for the development of the resources of new fields, and 
possessing a personal magnetism which awoke enthusiasm in his enter- 
prises and gained recruits for carying forward the plans which his fer- 
tile brain had matured. 

He was a leader in Watertown, a leader in Wethersfield, a leader 
in Stamford, a leader in h^airfield. Wherever he cast his lot he as- 
sumed the leadership — not boastfully, not in any sense arbitrarily, btit 
by sheer force of persistency in getting things done and through the 
recognition of his peculiar abilities by his fellowmen which invariably 
followed. 

The present town of Stamford was originally settled under the name 
of "Wethersfield Men's Plantation." As was the case in his earlier 
career, when he left Watertown to f«und a new habitation in Wethers- 
field at the behest of the Bay Colony, so now, through negotiations with 
the General Court of New Haven. Andrew Ward, in company with 
others, becomes the founder of a new settlement. I quote from Dr. 
Huntington's admirable history of Stamford, Conn. : 



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'Ihc following- record of the decision of the General Court of New 
Haven, held the 14th day of the ninth month, 1640, exhibits the title 
under which the colonists were to take possession of their new domain: 
■'Whereas. Andrew Ward and Robert Coe. of \\'ethersfield, were deput- 
ed by Wetherstield men. the 30th of the eighth month, commonl\- called 
October, 1640. to treat at Xew Haven about the plantation lately pur- 
chased by said town called TiKjuanis. which, being considered of. it was 
agreed upon by the said court and justices aforesaid, that they shall 
have the said plantation u])on the terms following: First, that they shall 
repay uiUo tlie said town of Xew Haven all the charges which they 
have disbursed about it. which comes to thirty-three pounds, as appears 
by a note or schedule hereunto annexed ; secondly, that they shall re- 
serve a fifth part of said plantation to be disposed of at the appointment 
of this court to such desirable persons as may be expected, or as God 
.sliall send hither, provided that if within one whole year such persons 
do not come to till up those lots so reserved, that then it shall be free 
for the said people to nominate and present to this court some persons 
of their own choice, which may till up some of those lots so reserved, if 
this court approves of them ; tbirdlw that they join in all points with 
this plantation in the form of government here settled, according to 
agreement, betwixt this court and Mr. Samuel Eaton about the planta- 
tion of Totokett. These articles being read, together with Mr. Samuel 
Eaton's agreement, in the hearing of the said parties, or deputies, it was 
accepted by them, and in witness thereof they submitted their names 
to the articles in the face of the court. 

"The following passage is from the first book of the Stamford rec- 
ords, defaced in some ])laces and wanting in others. The eflfaced por- 
tions are here included in parentheses. The earlier records are all in 
tile handwriting of Richard Law. The first ])aragra])h. which is a mere 
title, was evidently inserted after the name of the settlement had been 
changed. "164041. A townebo(ok of the) freeholders of the towue 
(of Stamfcjrd as it) was afterwards called, but now l\i])])owam. con- 
lay (njinig the acts) and conclusions of the comjianie of Wethersfifeld 
men. to (begin a) removal thither this \\ inter. And al>o their most 
inatcriale acts and agreenients, touching the place, how they came by 
it. their rat(es) and accounts, their divisions and grants of land, and 
records of every man's lands, and passages of land from one to an- 
other. I'irst, these men whose names are underwritten have bound 
tlienis( elves) under the paine of forfiture of 5 lb. ;i man. to goe or 
>-cnde to Ripp(owam) to begin and proMcnte the designe o\ a planta- 



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lion tluTc, by ye i6th o(f) May luxt, !';j rest, theire lainil)es, ihilhei" 
by ye last of Novembe(r) 12 months, viz.: 

]\i Denton, 

j\Ia .Antchell, 

Thur Rainor, 

Rob't Coe, 

And \\'ar(l. and fifteen others.' " 

Andrew Ward seems to have continued his municijial activities dur- 
ing- his sojourn in Stamford. He was honored by the inliabitants of that 
town in his election, first as constable, October 26, 1642. and later as 
magistrate, which office he assumed October 27, 1646, and held for the 
term of one year. He represented Stamford in the General Court of 
New Haven Colony in 1644. 

On the 27th of October, 164 1. he was with Francis Bell, Representa- 
tive of Stamford, at Xew Haven, and both were admitted members 
of the court and received the charge of freemen to treat with the court 
^bout the plantation (Toquams, or Stamford), lately purchased. 

At the assembling of the General Court at Xew Haven, April 15, 
1643. ^''^^ letter was presented, written in the name of freeplanters, in- 
f^oducing Capt. John Underbill and Richard Gildersleeve as deputies 
to the court at Stamford, at the same time recjuesting that a magistrate 
might be chosen for the better administration of the prudential afifairs 
of that town. He, with Rob't Coe, was appointed to assist at the next 
''.leneral Court of Election at New Haven, in counsel and advice for the 
more comely carrying on of public afifairs. He was again elected one 
of the Deputies from Stamford to the General Court of New Haven in 
1644 and 1646. At the same time Andrew Ward, George Hull and 
William Beardsley, of Stamford, were nominated as assistants to join 
with the magistrates for the execution of justice in the towns of Con- 
necticut by the seaside. He purchased Simon Hoyt's lot, west of Hyde 
Pond, which he sold in 1653 to Edward Adams, and purchased from 
Alexander Bryan, the same year, Thomas Newton's home and house 
lot on the Ludlow Square. He was one of the most important and 
influential men in Fairfield. His death occurred at the latter place in 
1659. 

The will of Andrew Ward, dated Fairfield, June 8, 1659, is as fol- 
lows : 

"The last will and testament of Andrew Ward, situate and living in 
Fairfield, being at present, through mercy, well both in mind and mem- 
ory, yet not knowing how the Lord may deal with mee. I therefore 



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commit nn soul to God that gave it, and my l)o(ly to a comely btiriall. 
And for all my estate as followetli : All our debts first p:>.y"d. lmi:)rimis. 
1 o-ive unto Ester, mv beloved wife, fortv pounds, to be pay'd out of my 
movable estate, and one-third part of all my lands and housing in Fair- 
field during her widowhood ; but in case a second marriage be i>er- 
formed then to possess noe part of the said housing or land any longer, 
but mv will is, a third part of what the said lands may be indifferently 
judged to be rented per annum shall be i)ay'd unto her use during her 
life. 2. I give unto my sonn, John, fiftx- iinunds. to be pay'd unto him 
at the age of one and twenty years. 3. I give unto my daughter, Sarah. 
forty pounds, to be pay'd within one year after her marriage. 4. I give 
unto my daughter. Abigail, forty pounds, (o be ])ay"(l unto her at the 
age of eighteen years. 5. I give unto Andrew and Samuel all my 
housing and lands, with such rights and dues that doth belong, as an in- 
stallment, equally to be divided when the eldest commeth to the age of 
one and twenty. .And what improvenunt can be made before the said 
Andrew commeth to the age of one and twenty, to be equally, to be 
divided between them. And what imi^rovement can be made of my 
sonn Samuel's part before be comn^eth to be twenty-one years of age, 
t(j be for his proper use. .And at twenty-one years of age to enjoy the 
full proi:)riety. according to the promises, yet not at all molesting or hin- 
dering my wife's thirds during her widdowhood ; and in case any of my 
two sonns Andrew and Samuel dye before they come to age of one 
and twenty, as aforesaid, then my will tb.at the survivor shall enjoy all 
that is due to both. 6. And. farther. m\ w ill is that what doth remayn 
of my movable estate after all debts and legacies be pay'd. shall equally 
be divided between my two sonns. Andrew and Samuel. 

7. And for the rest of my children, they have received their full por- 
tions already, except my sonn Edmond, who, if he come to this jdace. 
my will is that out of my two younger sons, Andrew and Samuel's, 
portions, there may be ])ay'd twenty pounds. In witness to the prem- 
ises that this is my true and last will, rexoking all others, 1 have here- 
unto subscribed my name ( ibo written all by my owne hand). 

AndkI'.w Wakd. 

This will was jirobated at a session of the court held ai l'"airfield 
the 20th day of ( )ctobrr. 1659. Tlu' inventory of the estate was ex- 
hiliited to the court and attested b\ the widow, bister \\'ar(l. There 
being no executor mentioned in tbr w ill. the court duly a])]M^inted Ester 
Ward anfl William Ward, the son of Andrew, as bis administrators. 
'i"he invctUory showerl the estati' to be \alued at the sum of £242 los. 



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Thus ended the hfe of this good man, whom we, his descendants, even 
to the eii;"hth and nintli j^^cneration, do this day honor. His career was 
an evenlful one. C nxcrin^ a i)i.ri(id of only threescore years, it left 
ils impress Uj)on fonr distinct communities. The records of W'ater- 
lown. W'ethersficld, Staniford and i'^airtield. each in turn bear witness 
to the valued services of Andrew Ward. His abilities, quickly recog- 
nized, secured for him honorable position, placed him in the front ranks 
and singled him out as a man whose fitness to represent his constituents 
honorably and with discretion was unchallenged. Unfortunately, we 
have no written statements and very few traditions upon which to base 
an estimate of his domestic life. There is likewise a paucity of detail 
as regards his religions and ecclesiastical life ; but in the absence of posi- 
tive information touching these matters, the whole career of the man 
points unerringly to a beautiful home life and a consistent daily walk 
and conversation. As an ofiice-bearer in the church he undoubtedl} 
brought to the duties of his office the same honest purpose, discriminat- 
ing judgment and tireless zeal in service which marked his career in 
secular affairs. 

Would that some cotemporary of our distinguished ancestor were 
here to-day to draw us within the inner circle of that life, whose out- 
ward development was so fruitful of good to his fellowmen, so genial 
in its companionships, so honest and painstaking in its conduct of busi- 
ness and legislative pursuits, so intense in its application to duty. 

In the light of this noble career, this brief biography seems indeed 
10 fall far short of the possibilities of the task assigned me. I can only 
say that the honor of representing Andrew Ward upon this occasion 
Vv^as unsolicited. Only the urgent request of the Reunion Committee, 
coupled with a sense of duty to the Association which has honored me 
v\ith a place among its office-bearers, could have determined me to 
accept the appointment and undertake a task for which so many other 
members of our body have superior qualifications. 

With heartfelt tribute to the distinguished virtues of our honored 
j^ncestor, I pass to a brief consideration of the generation which imme- 
diately followed: "The Children of Andrew Ward." 

In his valuable history Savage gives a list of the nine children of 
Andrew Ward, following its recital with these significant words, "of 
not one of whom is the date of birth known, except Andrew's (1647)." 
After careful examination of genealogical data contained in local and 
State histories, biographical volumes and private papers, I have found 
nothing to coutradict that statement. I'.ut. while we may not be certain 



40 THE REUNION 

of the exact year of birth of any of these cliilih'eii save the one men- 
tioned, we may nnquestionably deterniine upon the a])]n-oximate aq^es of 
at least several of them. Amono^ the MMS. papers of W. l-anand 
l-"elch I find these interesting conclusions : 

"Xo record of births of the children (if Andrew Ward is found in 
W'ethersheld. All earl\- records there were destroyed, probably about 
die time of the massacre. It is ];robable that idl the children were born 
in this countr\-. unless ];erln])s b'dmond. jolin, of Middletown, died 
i^iSj, and his first child was born ih()^, at which time he must have been 
about twenty-seven years old, since, in his father's will, he is a minor, 
hence born after 1638, or not quite twenty-one at Andrew, senior's, 
c'eath. 

"Abigail was not eighteen in i'^>59; heme born about 1641. Sarah 
was about nineteen or twenty then, old enough at least to be engaged 
(to be married), as per Andrew's will: hence born 1639 ^r 1640. 

"As for Ann. I conceive ber to be one of the elder children, by this 
time settled in life as the wife of Caleb Nichols. 

"Either she or Mary must have been next to Edmond ; hence about 
twenty-three or twenty-four in 1659. 1 would place these two daugh- 
ters between Edmond and John, but do not know which is the older. 
John would then come next, yet a minor in iC)5»;. 

"Next to John probably came Sarah, born about 1(^)39. and married 
soon after .Andrew's death to Nathaniel Ihirr. Next, probablv Abigail. 
about eighteen in 1659. Here I find a break, for about this time An- 
drew, senior, removed from Wethersfield. 

Some ])lace William in this break, born about 1645. ^^'^'^ <''c^' i/Oi. 
aged fifty-six. but not named in the will. 

"Next comes Andrew, we know born in 1*^)47. Next comes Samuel, 
these two the seemingly favorefl sons of .\ndrew. mere bovs of ten or 
twelve." 

1 lind dial iluTf ba> been a long and indecisive controversv as re- 
gards the ages of .\ndre\v Ward's children. Particularly is this true of 
the elder children. In the multi])licity of views there seems to be no 
loom for a common agreement, and since it is a matter of minor im- 
I»ortance, after all. the o])inions of all thes(.> writers iiiav well be ])laced 
side by side. Ka\ing each descendant to form his or her own con- 
clusions. 

In regard to the children of Andrew Ward, we seem to be almost 
as much in the dark as regards certain imiiortant particulars, as in the 
case of their worthy sire. Ilrief staUnunls lure and there, scattered 



THH KKl'NION 41 

throu<:]^h many local histories and l)i(ig;ra])hies, arc in several instances the 
only sources of information w c possess. l'^)rtunalcly, tln' n mi'cs of the 
persons who were united in marriage ti> the sons and (laughters of 
Andrew Ward haw all hcen ];rcserve(l, and in most cases the date of 
marriage is also attainable. 

JMentioning the children in what is probably the correct order as to 
i;ge, we find the following to be the matrimnnial alliances: 

Edmund married Mary Hunt. 

William married Deborah Lockwood. 

Ann married Caleb Xichols. 

Mary married John Burr. 

John married Mary Harris. 
. Sarah married Nathaniel lUirr. 

Abigail married Moses Dimon. 

Andrew married Tryal Meigs. 

Samuel married (i) Alice Ogden ; (2) Mrs. Hannah Xichols, 
widow of Jonathan Nichols. 

The mere repetition of the names of these families with which the 
children of Andrew Ward made alliance seems at once to link more 
closely the men and women of the present with the old b'airfield ancestor. 
The Hunts. lUtrrs. Nichols, Dimons, Meigs, Lockwoods and Ogdens are 
all of to-day, the representatives of large and intiuential families in New 
England, in the Empire State and in many other States of the Union, 
so that from this time on we begin to think of individuals rather than 
of families, and our path is hedged about by the difificulty of discrim- 
inating between the descendants of a worthy ancestor, very many of 
whom, though deserving of personal mention, must be omitted in a 
paper such as this, owing to its necessary limitations, both as to time 
and space. In a general way I may say of the immediate family of 
Andrew Ward that they were men and w^omen of sterling qualities, 
who by their happy marriages became the fathers and mothers of 
equally deserving families. I have not been able to learn very much 
about these children. A few data relating to their settlements in life 
and their appointment to various of^ces of trust, with the statement of 
their marriages, the names of the persons to whom they were wedded, 
the names and dates of birth of their children, is abcjut all that I have 
been able to find concerning them. 

And now, having fairly started the family upon their several careers, 
what shall I more say? In the language of Scripture, time would fail 
me to tell of the men and women who came after them. Here is a 



42 THE RKl'NIOX 

family circle, inchidini^ the ancestor, Andixw Ward, bis children and 
g^randchildren, nunihering sixty sonls. A reniarkalili' ixliilitinn, tnd\! 
So far a? I have been able to learn from the com])relH'nsive notes I have 
gathered, only one man among all his descendants had so large a circle 
of children and grandchildren. This was Dr. Levi ^^'ard, of Roches- 
ter, N. Y. ; son of Deacon Levi \\'ard of Killingworth, Conn, : son of 
Peter Ward, of Killingworth ; son of Peter Ward, of KillingworLh ; son 
of Andrew \\ ard, Jr.. of KellingworUi, who was a son of Andrew and 
Hester Ward of Fairfield. This Levi had thirteen children and fifty-six 
grandchildren. 

To return to llie chihlren of .\n::rew Wrrd. F.dnmnd removed to 
Wi'stchester County. X. Y., manor of h'ordbam. He was out of the 
county before A])ril 12. 1694. 

* Ensign William settled in Fairfield, purchasing the Perry liouse and 
lot of Dr. Thomas Pell's heirs, on the Xewton Square, next adjoining 
that of Rev. Samuel W'akeman. 

I have nothing concerning cny of the daughters after their mar- 
riages, except a few items relative to a Iministratorships and other legal 
affairs. 

John, of Middletown, married a wife in Rowdey, Mass., an;! was 
made freeman in 1667. 

Andrew was made freeiran in 1668. He married the daughter of 
John Meigs, of Guilford, Conn. This wrs the J<'hn },'eigs wdio was 
sent on horseba'rk b}- night to Xew Llaven b}" Gov. Lcete to warn the 
Regicides that the pursuivants were on their trail, the distance being 
about eighteen miles through a dense forest. 

Sergeant Sanmel. the youngest child, moved to h^astchcfter, West- 
chester County. X. Y. From this time on the families became scat- 
tered. I should say. in a general way, that the descendants of six of 
the children — viz.. William and Job:\ Ann Xi'diols. Alary and Sarah 
Rurr and Ahigail I )imon — remained in Xt'w I'jigland. 

The desceixlants of F.d.rnmd and Sanmel became \\'estchester 
County and New York City people, while the descendants of Andrew, 

* Williimi Ward was made freetiiaii on Mav 31, 1657. On March 4. l()7.i-6, according to page 10 
of the Fairfu-ld I'rohatc Record of that period', an inventory ' f the estate of "Knsign William 
Ward, deceased." was m;i(le ()\it, showinji his property to anonnt to £Sij.S 1 1-9. An Knsijjn was a 
commissioned officer, holding; his powers from the (Governor and I. egislattire. He is referred to 
aicaiii hy the same title on j)ajie 14 of Volume III of the Colonial Reci rds of Connicticnt. in a 
passaue wliich relates to his services in King Philip's War, dnrinjj which it is iniderstood he was 
killed. 

On the f)ther hand, the Conncil at Hartford on Jan\iary 14, i'>7.s-6, ordered that a certain 
"Serjeant William W.-ird" shonld ru to Xew I.,ondon to attend on some wonuded men (CoIoni;'l 
Records. II. 400). It is this other Willi.'im that Mrs. Schenck «ot liold of and concluded to be a 
surnerm. By that timt- there were various William Wards nearer H.irtford, at Middletown and 
elsewhere, than the luisinn of I'"airfi<ld, who was son of .Xnilrew Ward. In letter Irom Hmery 
McCintock. New York. 



Jr., emigrating- to what was tlKii the fmnt'.er Louniry of western Xew 
York, settled in Erie, (ienesee and .Mcnr; e ("our.ties and were among 
llie founders of Buffalo, Roelesler and Dthu- jla'.H's in that jiart of the 
State. Later on there were rej)resent;'' i\'es of all these houses in the 
western States, and to-day the descendants of Andrew Ward are iiroh- 
ably to be found in every State of the L'nion. 

It were easy to single out from among these numerous descendants 
men and women of exce]:tional ability who by their achievements have 
secured world-wide recognition. In the lields of science, literature, art, 
and among the ranks of great soldiers, statesmen and ])hilanthroi)ists. 
may be found the names of those who were and are proud to claim An- 
drew Ward of Fairfield as tlieir ancestor. 

But I am reminded by th.e Reunion Committee that the theme as- 
signed me covers onl\- the earlier generations of the family and that a 
paper upon the men and women of this lineage of the nineteenth century 
mtist be reserved till another meeting. Permit me, then, to depart so 
far from my instructions as to call attention to one or two incidents 
which, because of their peculiar relation to the historic ground upon 
which we stand to-day must prove of exceptional interest. 

Two monuments in the cemetery near by claim our attention. The 
first bears this inscription : At the top of the stone are the initials A. G. 
Then follow these lines: "This stone is erected by Jason (iould, in 
memory of his honored father. Col. Abram Gould, who fell in defense 
of his country at Ridgefield, April 27, 1777. aged 44 years, and of his 
deceased brothers, John IUut Gould, died at sea, June 2, 1781, aged 20 
years ; Hezekiah Gould, w ho was drowned at New York October 30. 
1789, aged 30 years, and Daniel Gould, who was drowned on the coast 
of France, December 28, 1796, aged 20 years." 

In commenting upon this unique stone, Kate E. Perry, of the old 
and distinguished Perry family, in Fairfield, in her little brochure, en- 
titled "The Old Burying Ground of I'airfield." has this to say : 

"Col. Abraham Gould was killed on his horse, and his body was 
brought home on horseback for burial. His sword, which was a straight 
silver mounted and three-cornered one, was fov.nd stained with the 
enemv's blood. It is now in the possession of a great-^^randson. Abram 
Gould Jennings, of Brooklyn, N. Y. His s?sh and coPt were deposited 
in the Trumbull gallery at Xew Haven. 

"Hezekiah Gould, whose name ai4:)ears u])on the mommient. was 
walking on a plank from the wharf to the vessel in Xew York, when 
the end" resting on the vessel fell, and he struck on his breast and was 
drowned."' 



44 TllERErNION 

You will already lia\c siirniistd that 1 air. (Iire:ting }t)ur attention to 
a family associated with our own ancestors. Abram Gould w'as the hus- 
band of Elizabeth lUirr. the i^reat-granddar.glter of Andrew Ward. 
The distinguished family of Goulds in Xew ^'ork and Connecticut are 
thus within the Ward family circle. The other significant tablet bears 
the following inscription: "Sacred to the n-emory of Henry Mar- 
(luand. born July 8, 1737. on the Island of ( 'r.iernsey. and died July 
12, 1772, after a residence of eleven years in An^erica. This stone, 
erected to conunemorate his memory by his only son, Isaac Marquand, 
Jul} 4. 1808. Also in memory of Gurdon Leyniiui Alar(|uand, son of 
Isaac and Mabel Marquand. born September. iSoi. and died May 
15. 1805." 

Concerning the above tlie writer referred to n^akes this comment : 

"Henry Marquand married the widow of Capt. John Redfield. The 
Irtter built the 'Colonial House." at present occupied by Mr. D. ^\. 
Redfield. Henry ^larquand prob'»bly died in this house. His son. 
Isaac, married Mabel, daughter of Peter Perry. Esq. They were the 
parents of Frederick Marquand. founder of Marquand Chapel at Y?.le 
('ollege, New Haven, and Henry G. Marquand. founder of Marquand 
Cliapel at Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. There were eleven 
children, of whom the above named are identified witli the financial and 
educational interests of the country. 

Isaac Marquand, mentioned above, was the Imsband of Mabel Perry. 
The latter was the great-great-great-grandchild of .Xi^drew Ward. The 
family of Marquands in New York and Xew England, distinguished 
alike in financial and educational circles, are thus seen to be within the 
Ward family household. 

Among the distinguished sons of .\ndre\v Ward, the n-nne of one 
whose manhood days were passed far fror.i the scenes of his boyhood 
must not be forgotten. William Ward w^s [^'•e great-great-great-great- 
grandson of Andrew- Ward, and alsn ilu' tiflli in llie line of "Williams." 
who descended in regular succession from W illiain W ard. of Litchfield, 
Conn. He was a bniihcr of the l)e-nitifnl old ]ad\'. .Mrs. Mar\- Ward 

P.illings, to whom rc-frrcnce is made in the opening sentence of this 
paper. 

In his pamphlet, entitled "William Ward, a Mississippi Poet h"n- 
titled to Distinction." Prof. Dabney Li])scoml), of the t'niversity of 
Mississippi, has this to say: "A gentleman of advanced age. rii)e cul- 
lure and extensive knowledge of the literature of tlu' State was asked. 
' A'ho is the best poet Mississip] i Ins ■:roduced?' l'roiu])ll\- he rejilied. 
'William Ward, of Macon.' " 



THE REUNION 45 

Let me. as an apjiropriatc conclusion ti> this |)a|)cr. flircct your 
minds to the beaiUiful sentiments of this hrlowd hrotlicr. W'ilham 
Ward, a son ot northern soil, who lo\r(l .-dikr the Xrw hji^land of his 
lioyhood and the Mississippi of his manhood. 

GETT\'Sr.l'RG. 
1863. 

We see those sjjlendid cohnnns swee]) 

Across the tield. Men hold their hreath ; 

Before them frowns the sullen steep ; 
Before and near is life or death. 



Tliey ?re not such cis break and Hy ; 

Xo laggards droop, no cowards quail. 
Those only pause who drop and die 

Beneath that storm of leaden hail. 



Tis sunset. For the Blue a gleam 
( )f glory fills the dying day: 

l'>om clouds above that sunset stream 
Another glorv for the Grav. 



1887. 
Thev meet again — not steel to steel. 

But hr^nd to hind and breast to breast. 
Hailed by the '^annon's peaceful peal — 

The i)lue the host, the Gray the guest. 



And so they share, the brave and true, 
The glory of that fateful day ; 

The Gray the glory of the T'lue. 
The Blue the glory of the Gray. 

;Jc ^ -f= 

'Tis sunset. From yon heaven away 
Fades every golden purple hue : 

O'er host and guest the twilight gray 
Blends with the evening sky of blue. 



46 TMK KKrNION 

Tiic next number upon the program was then announced. 
\'ocaI Selections — 

( a ) \\ lien Love is Gone Hawley 

( b ) i>e(louin Love Song Hawley 

Mr. C. r.. Hawley, New ^'ork City. 
The sele;:tions were finely rendered. 

The Secretary read the 

Report of the monument Committee 

Bufifalo, N. Y., May 8. 10105. 

To the Association of the Descendants of Andrew Ward, in Reunion at 

Fairfield, Conn., for the Memorial Committee appointed at the 

meeting in New York City, June 21. 1904: 

Each of the fifteen members of the Committee was asked these 
questions, viz.: i. Should the Association attempt to erect a monu- 
ment? 2. What should be its character? 3. What should be its ex- 
pense, and how shall the expense be met? 

The replies indicate interest and desire to co-operate in what may 
be undertaken. As to character, a member of the Committee sug- 
gests: "A plain durable stone, with a suitable inscription." The cost 
can be determined only by the amount which the members of the Asso- 
ciation shall make available. 

It is recommended that the Association at its present meeting de- 
cide definitely upon the (juestion of undertaking to erect a monument. 
If it is decided to go ahead, decide, so far as practical)le, its location and 
character. And here it is recommended that the location l)e in Fairfield, 
(/onn.. and that it be a j)lain. durable stone, with a suitable inscription. 

As to the exj>ense, have the members of the Association at this meet- 
ing subscribe what they will give, and direct that a circular be pre- 
i^ared promj)tly and sent to all other members, asking subscri])tions. 
fixing a definite data within whi -h su])scr!])tions can be received. 

Direct your ^lemorial Committee to carr}- out the wishes of the 
Association in the matter. Appoint, as chairman of this Committee, 
some one at or near Fairfield (iualilie(l to personally direct the location 
and erection of the monument, thr work to be done as soon as ])os- 
sible after the money re(|uired shall be subscribed. .Xud that a suitable 
nv'in for chairman of this Committee may be appointed, the present 
chairman hereby asks leave to resign. 1^'raternally sul>mitted. 

HFA'KY W.VRD, Chairman Memorial Committee. 



THK RKl'NION .^- 

The above rqjort was received and placed upim tile. Consideration 
of the reconiniendalii)ns presented in the report was ijostixuu'd. owinf:^ 
to the lateness of the hour. 

\ ocal Selection — 

A Rose Fable Hawley 

Miss Ruth Ward. 

The rendering- of this number evoked great ap]ilause, and Miss 
Vv'ard responded to the encore. 

A vote of thanks was then tendered to the ladies of the Congrega- 
tional Church of I-'airfield for their delightful entertainnKiit ; lo the 
Fairfield Historical Society for the use of their building ; to the singers 
who favored us with choice music, and to the committees who worked 
so assiduously for the success of the meeting. 

After the singing of the Doxology the Reunion came to a close. 

notes 

It is only fair to state that the success of the meeting w'as largely 
due to the very efficient Reunion Committee. The thanks of the /\sso- 
ciation are specially due to Mr. Frederick Meigs Ward, the chairman of 
the Committee, whose untiring and judicious efiforts contributed to the 
harmony and orderliness which were such a marked feature of the 
occasion. He was ably assisted by the other members of the Com- 
mittee. 

The Secretary particularly requests that members send to him with- 
out delay all notices of births, marriages, deaths, change of address, 
honors conferred, etc., among the members of the Association. The 
chairman of the Executive Committee has issued a circular, asking sub- 
scriptions from the members to provide for expenses of publication, 
etc. Responses are being received, with cordial expressions of encour- 
agement, accompanied by subscriptions, but many have failed as yet to 
reply. Let every member assist in keeijing the Association up to high- 
water mark. The Reunion pamphlet alone cost more than 50 cents a 
copy. Members wall please note that it is issued without charge. 

Alexander Meigs Ward, of New Haven, was the "Patriarch" of the 
Reunion. He bore the honor gracefully and was the recipient of cordial 
congratulation. One more year and he will be fourscore and ten. May 
he live to attend many more Reunions of the Association. 

An artistic monogram of the Association was exhibited at the recent 
meeting. It is here reproduced in the exact size. These monograms 
(pins for the dress or vest) may be obtained by order from the Sec- 
retary. Prices: Solid gold, $2.40; rolled gold, $1.40; silver, $1.40. 



4S THK REUNION 




Alenil)cis are advised It) keep tlie eireulars, liacls^es, iirot^rams. jjani- 
phlets. ete., of the Association, as they wiU be issued frequently, and 
will be valued as sotivenirs. 

It will be noted that the Secretary-Treasurer has moved to New 
York City. 

Attention is called to the fact that every descendant of Andrew 
Ward is eligible to membershi]) in the Association and will receive cor- 
dial welcome. Initiation fee. one dollar. Address 

George K. Ward, Treasurer. 
453 \\\ 123rd St., Xew York Citv. 



notice 

You are requested kindly to acknowledge receipt 
of this report by postal card to the Secretar^^ 



In Itlettioriam 

l\relvina A. Ward Stone was burn July 12, 1840. her parents 
beini^- Abner and lluldab (Sykes) Ward, who came from New 
England and settled in Bergen, Genesee County, N. Y., in 1817, 
where they raised a family of fourteen children, of whom Mrs. 
Stone was the youngest. Her father. Abner Ward, was a native 
of Killingworth, Conn. In her youthful days she was noted for 
her sunny temper, her vivacity and ready wit. always attracting 
many to her presence. Her life was full of vicissitudes, which she 
met with Qiristian fortitude, until she passed peacefully away at her 
home in Galesburg, 111., May 12, 1905, about one year after she 
joined this Association. Mrs. Stone was four times married. Her 
first husband was George Andrew Shader. She next married 
Ezra Ferris Hubbard. Her third husband was James Gilray, and 
the last E. C. Stone, M. D., of Galesburg, 111. 

Dr. Stone survives her. and she also leaves two sons, Howard 
Wnrd Shader, of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and George Clayton 
Shader. of Petaluma, Cal. T. W. S. 

Resolutions upon the death of Thomas Cooke Wordin : 
Whereas, Our Heavenly Father, through His divine providence, 
has removed from this earthly sphere to a higher life our former mem- 
ber, friend and brother, Thomas Cooke Wordin, it is herebv 

Resolved : That the Andrew W^ard Association deeply mourns the 
loss of an honored ofificer and charter member, who was ever faithful to 
its interests, and by his many sterling qualities, sincere and estimable 
character, was recognized as a worthy representative of an old and 
distinguished New^ England family. It is further 

Resolved, That these resolutions be recorded in the books of the 
Association and a copy of the same be forwarded by the Secretary to 
the family. 

James R. Burroughs, 
Samuel H. Wheeler, 
Howard H. Knapp, 

Committee. 



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